This machine can solve a Rubik’s Cube faster than you can blink

Humans may have gotten pretty adept at solving Rubik’s Cubes, but as usual, the machines are coming for us! This machine, invented by Ben Katz and Jared Di Carlo (humans!) can solve a Rubik’s Cube in roughly half the time of the previous world record, and they claim it can “definitely go faster.”

A video posted to Katz’s YouTube channel shows the machine solving a cube in 0.38 seconds. Seriously, if you take a particularly luxurious blink, you’ll miss it. The video slows down to 25 percent of the speed and eventually 3 percent of the speed to show exactly how the machine isolates sides and flips them into place. According to their blog, the inventors expect to shave off another 100 milliseconds after some debugging. Read more…